Outright Vermont draws hundreds to 2019 Queer and Allied Youth Summit
More than 250 youth and school staff advisors from 50 middle and high schools from 72 towns across Vermont participated in the 13th annual Queer and Allied Youth Summit held on Saturday and Sunday,...
OUT Maine awarded $100K to create online LGBTQ educational tools
OUT Maine, the Rockport, Maine–based LGBTQ youth support nonprofit, has been awarded $100,000 to create online educational tools for schools and providers.
Here's what OUT Maine is doing...
Maine high-school junior receives national student-advocacy award
Savannah Green, a 16-year-old junior at Gardiner Area High School in Maine, is one of four students nationwide to receive the GLSEN's Student Advocate of the Year Award.
The award "honors an outstanding young person who...
Marblehead school counters trans bullying with professional training
After a transgender student at the Village School in Marblehead was bullied in December, the school, which educates about 700 fourth-to-sixth graders, quickly responded by organizing a professional training session on gender identity and...
Northern Light Health in Maine partners with Bangor bookstore to bring LGBTQ titles to...
Northern Light Health, a psychiatric hospital in Bangor, Maine, is partnering with The Briar Patch bookstore, a local Bangor business, to distribute more than 100 LGBTQ books to staff, patients and families,...
Middlebury College student selected as Victory Institute Congressional intern
Mira Vance, a global gender and sexuality studies major with a concentration in Chinese at Middlebury College in Vermont, has been selected as one of six Spring 2023 Victory Congressional interns. Mira's...
Princetown Review ranks New England colleges among most LGBT friendly
New England colleges and universities placed three out of the top five on The Princeton Review's newly unfurled most LGBTQ-friendly schools list in its "The 382 Best Colleges" book, released today.
The College of the Atlantic...
GLSEN study finds Massachusetts schools unsafe for many LGBTQ middle and high-school students
Despite many initiatives to make Bay State public schools more inclusive and welcoming to LGBTQ students, a recent national study by the LGBTQ youth advocacy group GLSEN finds Massachusetts schools "unsafe for many LGBTQ...
Supreme Court takes up challenge to Maine’s policy against funding private, anti-LGBTQ religious schools
The US Supreme Court added a case to their next term that will once again involve "the growing conflict over providing government benefits to private religious schools that refuse to admit or...
Reps. Clark and Pappas introduce bill to block US discriminatory policy against LGBT college...
Vice Chair of the US House Democratic Caucus Katherine Clark of Massachusetts and Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire have introduced legislation to block a proposal by the Department of Education to allow colleges...
